verderer

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VER'DERER, VER'DEROR, noun [Low Latin viridarius.] An officer in England, who has the charge of the king's forest, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes, view, receive and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses.
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